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Definition of ethology in English:

ethology

Pronunciation: /eˈTHäləjē//ēˈTHäləjē/

noun

1The science of animal behavior.

‘She had her papers published in top scientific journals and Leakey got her a place at Cambridge to write a PhD thesis in ethology - the study of animal behaviour.’

‘There are many stories about the ethology, natural history, and social importance of rats, and, overall, plenty of evidence that people and rats have a lot more in common than most people would like to admit.’

‘Our hypothesis accords with classical ethology insofar as the emphasis is on stimulation, but it rests on reproductive conflict and manipulation rather than on cooperation.’

‘Research by Bekoff and others - in fields ranging from ethology to neurobiology - is beginning to provide scientific support for the notion that animals feel a wide range of emotions.’

‘The whole point of Darwinian ethology is to show that behaviours which would show foresight if we did them and could give reasons for them may evolve before reason and thus show no foresight at all.’

‘First, the growing field of cognitive ethology - which examines animal behaviour in the context of evolutionary biology - tends to support the attribution of beliefs, desires, and intentional actions to many animals.’

‘Other lemurs in the forest respond in similar ways to the fat-tail, according to Peter Kappeler, head of ethology and ecology at the center.’

‘The physiological ethology of stress in reptiles can inform views about the possible evolutionary antecedents of coping responses in other taxa, not least humans.’

‘That passion propelled Luis Baptista through life and into an amazing career that would illuminate many aspects of bird song, spanning the disciplines of ethology, systematics, and conservation.’

‘Many people use examples from ethology (the study of animal behaviour) and in particular primatology (the study of primates) ‘not just to support the idea of animal rights but to denigrate human claims of uniqueness and special status’.’

‘In summary, we can look forward to deeper understanding of the activation and coordination of the stress response as research into the physiological ethology of this model species progresses.’

‘A Dutch primatologist and professor at Emory University, Frans de Waal was trained in classical ethology and has decades of experience with the behavior of our nearest relations in captivity.’

‘In the mid-twentieth century, better methods and better models of natural selection drove the field of animal behavior back to ethology.’

‘Her unofficial study of equine ethology brought her into a deep resonance with horses, and she began to sense that she could be treated like a horse by other horses, exchanging sensory information as though she were a horse herself.’